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Section 31<br />

Practice Test Eight<br />

679<br />

SECTION 3<br />

Time-25 Minutes<br />

24 Questions<br />

Directions: For each of <strong>the</strong> following questions, choose <strong>the</strong> best answer and darken <strong>the</strong> corresponding oval on<br />

<strong>the</strong> answer sheet.<br />

Each sentence below has one or two blanks, each<br />

blank indicating that something has been omitted.<br />

Beneath <strong>the</strong> sentence are five words or sets of words<br />

labeled (A) through (E). Choose <strong>the</strong> word or set of<br />

words that, when inserted in <strong>the</strong> sentence, best fits<br />

<strong>the</strong> meaning of <strong>the</strong> sentence as a whole.<br />

EXAMPLE:<br />

Today's small, portable computers contrast<br />

markedly with <strong>the</strong> earliest electronic computers,<br />

which were -------.<br />

(A) effective<br />

(B) invented<br />

(C) useful<br />

(D) destructive<br />

(E) enormous<br />

©©©©•<br />

1. In <strong>the</strong> ------- atmosphere of <strong>the</strong> basement, <strong>the</strong><br />

stacks of old newspapers turned yellow and -------,<br />

emitting an odor that reached all <strong>the</strong> way to <strong>the</strong><br />

first floor.<br />

(A) underground . . outdated<br />

(B) dank . . musty<br />

(C) cool . . useless<br />

(D) shadowy . . wrinkled<br />

(E) cluttered . . faded<br />

2. Once a ------- population center, <strong>the</strong> city gradually<br />

lost residents to <strong>the</strong> factory towns of <strong>the</strong> north.<br />

(A) bustling<br />

(B) manufactured<br />

(C) rural<br />

(D) seedy<br />

(E) deserted<br />

3. In <strong>the</strong> summertime, ------- rains often ------- <strong>the</strong><br />

hillside slopes, causing landslides and washing<br />

away people's precarious houses.<br />

4.<br />

(A) torrential . . deluge<br />

(B) gentle . . purge<br />

( C) treacherous . . sustain<br />

(D) liberal . . desecrate<br />

(E) fecund . . bolster<br />

Those who reject psychological <strong>the</strong>ory and point to<br />

its scientific ------- must consider that it contains a<br />

substantial amount of truth, based not on -------,<br />

but on clinical observations.<br />

(A) inadequacies . . assumptions<br />

(B) foundations . . data<br />

(C) basics . . speculation<br />

(D) strengths . . experience<br />

(E) deficiencies . . evidence<br />

5. That she found <strong>the</strong> film ------- was a surprise,<br />

given her usual -------toward dramatic stories.<br />

(A) predictable . . spontaneity<br />

(B) poignant . . impassivity<br />

(C) irrelevant . . animosity<br />

(D) anachronistic . . perspicacity<br />

(E) affected . . originality<br />

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